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Nov 23, 2016

Grant Funding Available for Congregations to Answer the Call for Healing Creation-Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake Can Help Your Congregation NOW! Attend A FREE Chesapeake Bay Trust Grant Writing Workshop or Webinar. Click HERE for the promotional flyer you can share. Click HERE for more details and to register for one of 4 different dates.

"Efforts to safeguard and cherish the environment need to be infused with a vision of the sacred." Carl Sagan. Read these three amazing articles just published in the newest issue of the Chesapeake Quarterly. Click HERE to learn IPC’s compelling story. Read HERE about Empowering Believers Church’s inspiring environmental journey out of the flood waters. Click HERE for a fascinating read and real eye opener for anyone wishing to have a greater understanding of the linkage between science and faith in “Crisis of Faith – The Case for Religious Environmentalism”.

Great News!!!! IPC is proud to announce that we will be receiving a significant grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for a new initiative in the Jones Falls Watershed. Click HERE for a copy of the media release with the details.

A Light In the Darkness

Jan 05, 2016

A light in the darkness.

Mother Theresa will be canonized next September and clearly she was a light in the darkness. Malala Yousafzai is a light in the darkness in her unending fight for the educational rights of girls. Here in Baltimore, Destiny Watford, the high schooler fighting the permit for a trash incinerator in her neighborhood, is a light in the darkness.

Ever since San Bernadino, the hateful rhetoric in our country has escalated. It can seem very dark these days. Regardless of your religion and whether you are celebrating Christmas this week or not, you crave a light in this darkness.

But let me tell you...there is much light already piercing through this darkness.

10,901 trees have been planted by Maryland congregations

17 Anne Arundel County congregations are installing stormwater improvement projects with the help of Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and the Watershed Stewards Academy . . . Read MORE 2015 IPC Highlights

Open Position for Program Manager Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake (IPC) has an immediate opening for a Program Manager. The Program Manager oversees implementation and integration of IPC’s programs, manages program budgets, supervises program staff, and grows programs through grant procurement and earned contracts. IPC’s programs bring together the connections and resources that congregations need to make it easier for them to be good stewards of Creation. Click here to download the full job description.

Congregations Needed to Plant Trees in Montgomery & Prince George's Counties Got Grass? Plant FREE trees instead. Through Trees for Sacred Places you can have a BIG impact on your environment, host a GREAT community building and beautifying event on any faith owned property in Montgomery & Prince George's counties and throughout Maryland that can accommodate 60+ trees. If there isn't enough space available you can team up with another congregation. Don't own your property or have no free space? We can put a team of your volunteers to work. Check out our full webpage HERE.

St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, Annapolis

Starting my work career back in the late 1970s, I recall inoperable windows becoming commonplace in many buildings. They were a symbol of the times—outdoor air becoming dirtier by the decade. And, in urban areas, I believe, they reflected fear that emerged from the riots of the late 1960s. Today, with the effects of environmental degradation well documented, comes the question of how we begin a reset through environmental stewardship. What do our existing buildings say about us and how do we build new or renovate?

Environmental stewardship, for me, is a part of my Christian witness. Increasingly I’ve come to realize that it’s my calling to help protect and restore God’s Creation—for all of us. So to be able to live my business life as a sustainable design consultant who assists in the delivery of “healthy” LEED-certified buildings is indeed a blessing.